Data in the News is part of TeachingWithData.org, a portal of teaching and learning resources for infusing quantitative literacy into the social science curriculum in both K-12 and Post-Secondary settings.
Here, we highlight current events and news articles and the data they reference.

ICPSR's real-world experiences for students featured in webinar

The webinar, conducted Nov. 29, focused on opportunities ICPSR provides to get students involved in social science research. The video is available here (wmv file, 64 MB). The slides are divided into two sections. Information on ICPSR's Research Paper Competitions (PowerPoint, 584kB) was presented by Sue Hodge, and Abayomi Israel spoke about ICPSR's summer internship program (PowerPoint, 10.6 MB). Entry deadline for the Research Paper Competitions is January 31, 2012 and the application deadline for the Summer Internship Program is February 13, 2012.